Category Archives: Valley News

By Chris Hendrickson, Monitor She single-handedly established two food banks in the Sky Valley, which feed between 500 and 600 people per month. And that only begins to address the extent of her outre [...]

By Polly Keary, Editor Dave Murray was an affable Santa Claus at Christmas, a respected business operator of the Mail Station in Monroe, and a well-liked resident of Gold Bar. Last week, more than a y [...]

Charlotte “Skip” Mackner, former mayor of Skykomish, has died at age 79. Mackner, a Sky Valley native who was born in Startup in 1934, grew up in Skykomish and was one of 12 graduates of Skykomish Hig [...]

By Chris Hendrickson, Monitor The Sultan School District has submitted a proposal asking its constituents to reestablish the existing Maintenance and Operations tax levy that was approved by over 61 p [...]

The Skykomish School District is seeking constituency support to replace their current levy, and to offer some incentive to their voters, they’ve lowered the rate. The ballots for the Skykomish School [...]

By Chris Hendrickson, Monitor It’s a bit of a twist on Sultan’s Coffee with the Mayor concept. Instead of the mayor, Sky Valley residents will get the chance to have coffee with the Sheriff of Snohomi [...]

By Chris Hendrickson, Monitor Sultan has paid off nearly $1 million in debt and had high levels of volunteerism last year, said Mayor Carolyn Eslick in her State of the City Address at a recent chambe [...]

A young Sultan man may have made a bad move early Tuesday morning when he tried to carjack a car that was out of gas. A woman had run out of gas and was stranded on SR 18 near Auburn, waiting for a f [...]

By Chris Hendrickson, Monitor Sultan High School students were briefly evacuated on Friday due to a fire that began outside the school’s Vocational-Agriculture building. The fire department received n [...]